More Virtue than Vices

Battleborn

In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West....

Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told

By
Pedro Ramirez
on
12-03-15

Barkskins

A Novel

By:
Annie Proulx

Narrated by:
Robert Petkoff

Length: 26 hrs

Unabridged

Overall

804

Performance

737

Story

733

In the late 18th century, Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman, makes his way from Northern France to New France to seek a living....

Awe-Inspiring, Far-Reaching Epic

By
W Perry Hall
on
06-30-16

Lincoln in the Bardo

A Novel

By:
George Saunders

Narrated by:
Nick Offerman,
David Sedaris,
George Saunders,
and others

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3,688

Performance

3,477

Story

3,458

A moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln....

"Where might God stand?"

By
Mel
on
02-17-17

Bark

Stories

By:
Lorrie Moore

Narrated by:
Lorrie Moore

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Unabridged

Overall

112

Performance

102

Story

100

In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls....

Enjoyable, intriguing short story collection

By
CGJ
on
01-04-15

Commonwealth

By:
Ann Patchett

Narrated by:
Hope Davis

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5,353

Performance

4,873

Story

4,874

One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly....

A Must Listen for Patchett fans

By
J
on
09-19-16

Publisher's Summary

Michael Chabon once said, “I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson's name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again.” And now she has blessed us again, with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved. Her stories are clear-eyed, hard-edged, beautifully formed. In the title story, “Funny Once,” a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends. In “The Village,” a woman visits her father at a nursing home, recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions. In another, when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing, a mother worries increasingly about her teenage son’s relationship with a bad-news girlfriend. In the novella “Three Wishes,” siblings muddle through in the aftermath of their elder brother’s too-early departure from the world. The landscape of this audiobook is the wide open spaces of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Throughout, there is the pervasive desire to drink to forget, to have sex with the wrong people, to hit the road and figure out later where to stop for the night. These characters are aging, regretting actions both taken and not, inhabiting their extended adolescences as best they can. And in Funny Once, their flawed humanity is made beautiful, perfectly observed by one of America’s best short story writers.